Heroic Quotes
513 quotes by 409 authors
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When I wrote War Against the Mafia as a Vietnam statement, I didn't expect much to come of it-but quite a bit came and it…
— Don Pendleton
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In my fantasies, I was always caught up in heroic struggles, and I saw myself saving lives, sacrificing myself for others. I had far loftier…
— Irene Gut Opdyke
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Let us teach our people again to be proud that they are Filipinos. Let us teach them to realize anew that being a Filipino means…
— Carlos P. Romulo
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Heroes come in all sizes, and you don't have to be a giant hero. You can be a very small hero. It's just as important…
— George Lucas
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The Saga of Dharmapuri is one of the great works of modern Indian literature. (...) Set against Vijayan's heroic and scatological Candide -- originally written…
— David Selbourne
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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if…
— Joseph Campbell
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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.
— Joseph Campbell
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They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.
— Hugh Laurie
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Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.
— Thomas Merton
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The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. If we cannot find God in the…
— Richard J. Foster
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Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.
— Isaac
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On that day, we couldn't reach the conclusion whose hero is the strongest. And today when we are 41 years old, we can protect neither…
— Kim Do-Jin
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She has a choice. She can either accept a life of misery or she can struggle against it. And she chooses to struggle...she fails in…
— Kate Winslet
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The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we couldn't make them…
— Ernest Becker
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Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.
— Ernest Becker
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Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.
— Edward Albert
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Love is never abstract. It does not adhere to the universe or the planet or the nation or the institution or the profession, but to…
— Wendell Berry
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Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek…
— Charles Baudelaire
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For there is one thing we must never forget... the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make…
— Adolf Hitler
Who Wrote These Heroic Quotes
409 authors contributed a total of 513 Heroic Quotes, led by these top contributors: